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RPG for Pre-Schoolers
Your kids have a great imagination, so put it to good use and try the Kids Dungeon Adventure. My daughter is 4 and she loves it.
- hsmyers 16y agoShowing my age I guess, but two things occur to me; 1. RPG stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade to my mind so it took a while to crack the context :), and 2. much more importantly don't we have a pretty good product description and field test going on here? Seems like desktop CNC and a load of maple could lead to initial sales at Society for Creative Anachronism fairs later this summer and more general toy fairs post success after...
- wazoox 16y agoI suppose AD&D for pre-schoolers would have made it clearer ?
- daeken 16y agoWow, I never thought about CNC/3d printing in the context of the SCA. Produce stuff at low cost using modern tech, sell it at Pennsic [1] for a massive, massive markup. [1]: For those of you not in the know, Pennsic is a massive war in the SCA which lasts almost 3 weeks, outside of Pittsburgh. Over 10,000 participants and tons of merchants selling overpriced, awesome wares. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsic_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsic_War
- bengarvey 16y agoGeeze you are right. Any coincidence that I'm currently building a makerbot as well? hmm....
- michael_dorfman 16y agoAnd I guess I'm showing my age: RPG for me means Report Program Generator, and was what we used to program in (alongside COBOL) back in the pre-PC days. (Cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG_II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG_II) (It was a trip of a programming language-- OpCodes had different meanings, depending on which column they were placed in. Take a look at the sample code in the Wikipedia article.)
- JeffL 16y agoSounds like a cool idea. It would be interesting to see the rules you're using in addition to the pictures of the dungeons.
- bengarvey 16y agoBattle system is very simple and not the focus of the game. You need to make it a true obstacle, but the real fun for the kids is completing the quest, opening the treasures, finding all the monsters, etc. The battles are essentially: Roll to see who goes first, then each side takes turns beating up the other with a six sided die to determine damage.
- dgabriel 16y agoHave you sent a free copy to Dooce? She's a good start for publicity.
- bengarvey 16y agoThanks for the tip. I'll do that.
- marshray 16y agoAt first I was a little bothered by the idea of a "preschool dungeon adventure". But on further reflection I suppose it says something positive about our culture that the term "dungeon" has lost it's association with "torture chamber".
- rycs 16y agoyou know what? my wife is at the living room trying to study and we have a 4 year old son that I have to keep busy today. I am a big fan of RPG games and I really liked this idea, going to see if it works with him :) thank you!
- rycs 16y agomuch to my surprise it worked, I mean, after we finished the first maze (it was short just a proof of concept), he wanted to do another one and he really got into trying to save the schoolbus, funny thing was that he rolled the dice over the monsters and then hit them with the dice during the battle, epic!
- bengarvey 16y agoGlad you liked it! My daughter has a toy robot that has it's own battle song.
- malkia 16y agoheh, nearly the same situation... here... Have to try it out with my son.
- protomyth 16y agoHero Quest and its ilk were good for this sort of thing.
- Mz 16y agoMy two sons used to do this kind of thing all the time, minus the printed monsters. They had entire boxes of items that they kept around specifically to help them build mazes and also were very bad about co-opting every video-tape in the house or similar.
- mamacker 16y agoPlayed this with my boys(5 and 3) and they really liked it. Play lasted for about two hours - and they are looking forward to the next. A tip that worked well with them - carry over money and food for the next quest - made them value the coins/food even more! Thanks!
- protomyth 16y agoWhen the kid gets a little older, Arkham Horror (a Cthulhu Mythos board game) might be something to try. It has all the players working against the "game".